Spring Garden Acre is a blog about our family's gardening adventures. We call our place Spring Garden Acre, because we live on Spring Road with about an acre. We're located in zone 6b of south central PA. We grow peaches, berries, vegetables and keep a few chickens for eggs and meat.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Tatsoi delights! And freezing bok choi results.

Tonight we harvested tatsoi, or as it is also called, Chinese cabbage, and even mustard spinach. It's very high in vitamin A, and of all things kind of fatty too. We have absolutely no experience with it. Out of the 8 or so heads we harvested, we kept 3 for fresh salads and the rest went into the freezer.

Now concerning the bok choi freezer test. Belle concluded that blanching is not necessary. It only makes the choi more mushy. Even so, after her freeze-it-and-see test the choi is (though not perfectly, but at least adequately) firm enough to use in stir fry and especially soup.